ELL HubBill Burnett & Dave Evans
Bill Burnett & Dave Evans
Episode 260
Vocabulary
ideate (verb)
- Definition:
- to think of new ideate ideas or plans
- Example from the episode:
- “Because a lot of times, the social pressure of staying in their lane is so powerful that they can't even ideate about something different.”
- Example sentence:
- “We ideate ideas for our class project.”
tenet (noun)
- Definition:
- a basic belief or idea that people in a group follow
- Example from the episode:
- “In your book, Designing for Life, Dave, you leverage one of the tenets of design thinking when you advocate for prototyping conversations to gather data.”
- Example sentence:
- “The rule became a tenet for the team.”
user-centered (adjective)
- Definition:
- focused on the needs and wishes of the people who will use something
- Example from the episode:
- “Well, you know, we're user-centered designers.”
- Example sentence:
- “We made a user-centered website.”
wild card (idiom)
- Definition:
- an unexpected person or thing that can change a situation
- Example from the episode:
- “And then the wild card plan, the third plan is, what would you do if you had all the money and the resources that you needed, and no one would say, well, that's a stupid thing?”
- Example sentence:
- “He is a wild card in the game.”